Hello friends and thank you for stopping by today to help celebrate Hero Arts Summer 2018 Release! I’m happy to share a bunch of monochromatic floral cards with little to no coloring!
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VIDEO TUTORIAL
As always, I filmed a video tutorial showing how to create this project from start to finish. I’m hoping you’ll enjoy it. Watch it below or on my Youtube channel.
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CARD DETAILS – MONOCHROMATIC STAMPING
I personally love to use florals for my handmade cards, but I don’t always want to spend the time coloring the flower. Today I have a few cards to share using new Hero Floral stamps showing how you can skip coloring and still use your outline floral images to make beautiful cards.
This handmade card uses Nuvo Drops as a final touch. Want to see 4 other ways you can use Nuvo Drops from Tonic Studios in card making? Check out this article – 5 Ways to Use Nuvo Drops.
For my card #1 I used my stamp platform and Rose Stem stamp along with some colored cardstock. I stamped the floral image repeatedly using Versamark Watermark ink creating floral frame and empty space in the center.
I love this watermark look – I find these florals looks spectacular when stamped in VersaMark ink onto various dark colors of cardstock.
The stamps themselves have a lot of detail to them – there’s shading added and that makes these images very beautiful. If you think about it – you don’t necessarily need to add coloring because these florals are beautiful as is.
I also stamped a beautiful sentiment that reads “I Can’t Thank You Enough (But It Won’t Stop Me From Trying)“, added a same watercolored flower and embellished this almost one layer card with Nuvo Drops in Carnation Pink.
Here’s another sample of the same technique but done on different color cardstock:
CARD DETAILS – MONOCHROMATIC HEAT EMBOSSING
For my card #2 I did monochromatic heat embossing. I started by stamping a sentiment and this one reads “Congratulation! We Are so Happy For You“. Next, I used Dahlia image and stamped it repeatedly around the edges of the panel framing it.
I gold heat embossed all of my images and added a W3 warm gray Copic marker outline to emphasize these florals. I kept this card very simple and only embellished it with Clear Nuvo Drops.
CARD DETAILS – MONOCHROMATIC STAMPING & EMBOSSING
I used the Mum and the Mum Stem images from the Hero Florals collection for my next card and I combined heat embossing and VersaMark Watermark stamping. I first heat embossed several mum images around the edges of my panel creating a floral frame – I used Platinum embossing powder. Next, I stamped the mum stem multiple times using just the watermark ink and no heat embossing. This helped me fill in the gaps on my background.
So you can see I did very little to no coloring for these cards. Where I did do some coloring it was just quick wet-on-wet watercolor.
ADDITIONAL INSPIRATION
I have two more card ideas to share using Hero’s Florals. My card #1 features ink blending – I heat embossed floral outlines in gold embossing powder and used Hero Arts inks along with a Tonic Ink Blending brush to blend some color and fake the coloring. I used Butter Bar along with Pink Madder.
My last card idea for today features watercolor. I took some time to color this flower and I really love the way it turned out. I did my coloring on Arches Cold Pressed watercolor paper using my Daniel Smith watercolors in Opera Pink, Quinacridone Pink and Sap Green.
BLOG HOP – HOP ALONG & GET INSPIRED
The next stop on this hop is amazingly talented Kathy Racoosin. You can also start form the beginning on the Hero Arts blog.
GIVEAWAY!
Hero Arts is giving away 2 $50 shopping sprees to the Hero Arts online store, randomly drawn from comments left across all blogs in the hop by 11:59pst on Sunday, May 20.
SUPPLIES
I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!
 Hero Arts Florals Rose Stem Shop at: SSS | SC | HA |
 Hero Arts Florals Rose Stem Stamp and Die Shop at: SSS | SC | HA |
 Hero Arts Frame Cuts Die Rose Stem Shop at: SSS | SC | HA |
 Hero Arts Clear Stamps Peonies Shop at: SSS | SC | HA |
 Hero Arts Peonies Stamp and Die Combo Shop at: SSS | SC | HA |
 Hero Arts Frame Cuts Die Peonies Shop at: SSS | SC | HA |
 Hero Arts Clear Stamps You’re Beautiful Shop at: SSS | SC | HA |
 Hero Arts Florals Stamp and Cuts Rose Coordinating Set Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Florals Stamp and Cuts Dahlia Coordinating Set Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Florals Clear Stamp Mum Stem Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Florals Mum Stem Clear Stamp and Die Combo Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Florals Stamp and Cuts Mum Coordinating Set Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Snow Layering Papers Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 PTI Perfect Match Cardstock Sampler Shop at: PTI |
 Simon Says Stamp Fog Gray Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Black Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Dual Tipped Blender Brush Shop at: SSS | SC |
 Hero Arts Butter Bar Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Rose Madder Hybrid Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Simon Says Stamp Woodgrain Cardstock White Shop at: SSS |
 Arches Cold Press Watercolor Pad 9×12″ Shop at: SSS | AZ | BL |
 Spellbinders Platinum Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS | SC | SPEL | AZ |
 Medium Water Brush Shop at: SSS | SC |
 Hero Arts Gold Embossing Powder PW100 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Platinum Embossing Powder PW117 Shop at: SSS | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Emboss White Detail Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS |
 ScraPerfect Crafting Pouch Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Versamark Watermark Emboss Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | HA | AZ |
 Mini Misti Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Copic Sketch Marker W3 Warm Gray Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Tonic Morning Dew Nuvo Crystal Drops Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Tonic Gloss White Nuvo Drops Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Tonic Carnation Pink Nuvo Drops Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Scor-Tape 1/8 Inch Crafting Tape Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Tonic Studios 8.5 Inch Paper Trimmer Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Tim Holtz Tonic Craft Stamp Platform Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Tonic Deluxe Adhesive Nuvo Glue Shop at: SSS | SC |
All of these are super!
Fabulous Yana, love the different ways of doing floral cards without colouring. I will definitely be having a go at these. :O)
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Such beauty ~ each one so detailed and exquisite! I could stare at these all day – they are so inspiring and the messages made me smile 🙂 TFS ♥
Thanks for your simple but elegant techniques for these cards!
Such pretty cards! Thanks for the chance to win.
Dang Girl, those cards are beautiful!!
Fabulous cards Yana! I love the floral stamp sets, and what you did with them, makes me want them all. You create with just a little bit of everything (embossing, color combinations, die cuts, etc.) and the results are always inspiring.
Awesome cards Yana!!
Aahhh-such lovely floral cards!
You’re right-they are beautiful
enough without coloring.
As per usual, your cards are stunning!
Lovely cards and a great technique to try. Thanks!
Very sweet cards Yana.
Such beautiful cards! I’m very happy to find out you can get such stunning results without having to know how to colour!
These are so pretty! Loving all the tone on tone looks, especially the kind of olive gold one, just stunning!
Card # 2 is my favorite! beautiful
Everything is just beautiful. Hope to win.
Very nice!!! Makes me want to try it!!
What lovely cards. They remind me of really classy stationery, and it gives me ideas for making a set of stationery for people come birthdays! I also really like that sentiment. That’s often how I feel about the gratitude I can give others. Thanks for sharing such beautiful cards with us!
Beautiful cards!! I love all the embossing!
What an amazing variety of cards !! And as usual, everything is so beautiful !!
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Love the cards. They look very beautiful and elegant. And the technique is perfect for mass production. Definitely gonna try this!
Gorgeous cards. Thanks for sharing.
Love these cards, Yana…your many examples and video tutorial are so helpful for inspiring ideas and expanding my card making techniques. tfs
Love the monochromatic background. I like hoe you increased the color intensity by stamping multiple times with versamark
Super cards as usual – love the monochromatic look, very striking !
Stunning cards! These are great techniques to get beautiful cards without all the coloring. I love these ideas and can’t wait to try them out.
Fabulous cards! Really fun techniques.
Such beautiful cards!